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FIDELITY

[120] "Fidelity," by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), is placed here out of
respect to a boy of eleven years who liked the poem well enough to recite
it frequently. The scene is laid on Helvellyn, to me the most impressive
mountain of the Lake District of England. Wordsworth is a part of this
country. I once heard John Burroughs say: "I went to the Lake District
to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth."